I think cake #1 is an abstract mummy, more of an iconic representation than a figure. The concept was executed somewhat better on the "American Gothic" cake posted on Sunday. Without airbrushing. And smoother icing.

I've heard that you can tint icing before it goes on the cake, so it doesn't look it's covered with diesel exhaust.

the recycled heart cake ghost looks more skeptical than terror-filled or terror-filling... And I think the first cake is a mummy who was wrapped way too tightly... so tightly that its bandages snapped and its eyes bulged out to the outside of the bandages. Odd since Mummies are not supposed to have eyes... at least not oozy blue ones.

I'm beginning to wonder if "Craig" posting is my husband... who claims to not read Cakewrecks. (but then comes in to see why I'm snorting tea on my screen)

Duct tape and WD-40 indeed. Nail on the head, there.

Have to admit, I thought the first one was quite appropriate for the Hallowe'en set of cakes. You sure these are really wrecks? Ok, so like, I've done the eyeball thing with 'the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out' theme... I admit it.

I stared at the first cake for quite a while and still can't decide what it's supposed to be. And the last one, you totally make me lose it in laughter. Ticked off toilet paper was bad enough but "with legs" was too much! LOL

You know how you can usually tell better what a picture is supposed to be when you see it full size? Sadly not so for the mummy cake pic. It was much more recognizable as a mummy on the thumbnail version that showed up on my blogs list today!

I can't decide if the first one is a mummy or a dirty ghost. or something more sinister...or perhaps a victim! those eyes look a little freaked out.

why does the pumpkin look like a creepy clown? or like an angry Lady Tottington.http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee282/Clowns183/ladytottingtonWallaceandGromit.jpg

the bleeding eye of doom...with gummy worms...

boo hoo cracks me up!

and I LOVE angry toilet paper. with legs. the whole concept of angry toilet paper cracks me up! is that why my neighborhood is draped in it the night before Halloween? is it the night of Angry Toilet Paper's Revenge? and those "legs" are the paper tendrils about to attack a tree?

I would go with you lol but I would have some holy water and garlic to ward off the evil wreckerators. And that poor ticked off toilet paper cake. If I was toilet paper I guess I would be angry about it too. Poor cake.

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